Lumber-loading device.



I No. 758,989. PATEN-TED MAY 3, 19b4.-\

A. P. LUCAS.

LUMBER LOADING nsvrcn. APPLIOATIOII FILED JAR. 19, 1904..-

a? M 5 -%M% 7 UNITED STATES Patented May 3, 1904.

ALBERT LUCAS, OF TOLEDO, IOWA.

LUMBER-LOADING DEVICE.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 758,989, dated May 3, 1904.

Application filedJanuary 19, 1904. Serial No. 189,687, (No model.)

To all whom it may concern.-

of the car below the door or window, as will be more particularly set forth in the description and claim following.

In the accompanying drawings, forming a part of this specification, Figure 1 is a view of the device in perspective as applied to the end of a car. Fig. 2 is a rear view of the same.

,Fig. 3 is a central vertical section of Fig. 2.

Fig. 4 is a fragmentary top view supporting frame.

As ordinarily performed the loading and unloading of cars with lumber is a laborious operation, especially in the case of heavy timbers, asusually the material must be passed through the window at the end of the car and slid bodily along the sill. It is usually necessary, too, to pass it out at an angle to the car in unloading, owing to the difliculty of placing a wagon at the end of a car, and the wagon must accordingly stand alongside the track at the rear of the car. This invention is designed to lighten much of this labor by providing rollers to carry and guide the lumber either straight out from the car or at an angle thereto.

In the drawings, A designates a part of a freight-car of an ordinary type provided with the usual window B at the end and a track 0 to carry the door D, closing said window.

E is a rectangular iron frame provided with a pair of adjustable hooks F, secured thereto of the rollby bolts Gr. By this means the position of the frame may be adjusted up or down, so as to bring the roller (presently to be described) to the proper level with respect to the window-sill. It is to be understood that the relative position of the door-carrying rail varies to some extent in different cars. Hence the necessity for this adjustment. At some distance from the top of the frame is a cross-bar H, and to the top of the frame is secured, as by rivets I, a plate J, provided with a number of holes K to take studs L on the under side of a roll-carrier M. This has a stem N, passing through the top of the frame and the cross-bar, as shown. Between the upwardlyextending arms of the roll-carrier and journaled in them is a roller 0, normally horizontal. In suitable openings P in the same arms are journaled short vertical rollers Q, to serve as antifriction-guides for the sides or edges of the lumber passed over the longer roller. It will be seen that the long roller may be set parallel with the top of its supporting-frame at an angle thereto in either direction for convenience in passing lumber.

Having thus described my invention, what I claim as new, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is j V.

The combination with a supporting-frame provided with adjustable hooks and an adjusting-plate, substantially as described, of a roll carrier pivotally mounted in said frame, and having depending studs to engage the -plate adjustably, a horizontal roller journaled in its vertical arms, and a vertical roller journaled ALBERT F. LUCAS.

Witnesses:

J. R. CALDWELL, WM. V. VEST. 

